Quote Originally Posted by Bolivar View Post

I agree with you that it would be uncharacteristic for him to kill Delita, but Delita completely lost his marbles the day Teta died. He became what he fought against - a cycle of power where the most cunning lie, cheat, and backstab their way to the top.

Also, Olan/Orran (actually had to look up his name - Cid's stepson!) was burned at the stake!!! Maybe Delita was a good king (as the prologue suggests) maybe he wasn't, history is full of lies!
Except Delita didn't have Orran killed, he was executed by the church as a heretic so you can't blame Delita there. Delita also happen to kill a lot of people who were not exactly innocent. Yes he fell from grace but he pursued his own idea of saving Ivalice to the end.

I wouldn't say Delita was evil or crazy, rather he was just very human. His actions were necessary to complete his goal and technically fewer people died from Delita's scheme than the amount who fell to Dycedarg (sp?) and the churches scheming. Its not like Delita's schemes plunged Ivalice into war, rather it actually ended the war, so its pretty difficult to say the man didn't accomplish anything for the greater good. He just gets flack cause he ended up king for his carefully planned trouble but sadly its better for Delita to gain the crown than any of the other nobles or the Glabados Church to regain power. Though he did many terrible things (and lets not forget Ramza is not exactly innocent either in this regard) his actions actually did lead to a greater good for the people who really were suffering in the war.